Re: [nottingham] strace (was Re: Expo, Lug and the web site.)

From: Seanie (seanie@merciless.org.uk)
Date: Wed 18 Apr 2001 - 18:24:18 BST


Simon Amor wrote:
>.... putty to linux box from windows machine to read email, mush, login to work etc.

I'm not sold on that idea; much rather talk to my two headless boxes with a
full bells and whistles KDE desktop. Or even FVWM!! Used it a while back when a
DX50 was the fastest machine I had :-(
Now I'm on XFree 4.0 and Kernel 2.4 there's very little I can do under
Windows that I can't do better under Linux. The reverse is SO not true.
On the extremely rare occasions I have to boot win95, I usually run the MiX
X-server and have lovely Xterms all over the place. Much more civilised.
(yeah, I know; the command-line guys are probably foaming at the mouth reading
this, and getting the voodoo dolls ready)

> - tried KDE and Gnome and didn't like either of them. I never really
> tweaked the default config though so maybe that's where I went wrong.

Nah, it's still bloat. The config options are only for changing the level of
eye-candy. But as long as you've got the horsepower to run 'em they can make
your life a little bit easier.
Only KDE fly-in-the-ointment for me is the default KFM umask of 077 when
creating directories; major pain in the rear (any hints on how to change this
would be appreciated!)

Regards,

Sean King
seanie@merciless.org.uk
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